Author Archives: Deborah Elkins

A trial court had no statutory authority to award attorney’s fees to appellee upon dismissal of a couple’s petition for adoption, and the Court of Appeals reverses the trial court decision. Appellants filed a petition for adoption pursuant to Chapter ...

Although a witness admitted to sexual intercourse with wife, thus corroborating her admission of a “physical” relationship with the witness, the witness was served with a subpoena immediately before the hearing and was ill and needed medical attention, and the ...

A husband was entitled to spousal support, the Court of Appeals says, after husband was laid off from his job as a machinist and the couple agreed he would be a stay-home parent to care for the couple’s children, ages ...

A plaintiff whose suit against Purdue Pharma, the maker of the pain medication OxyContin, alleged the product caused him to become addicted, was dismissed by the Abingdon U.S. District Court, does not have to pay defendant drug company $780 for ...

A Charlottesville U.S. District Court reduces a drug defendant’s drug sentence from 135 months to 120 months, over an objection by the government that defendant is a public safety threat because of his criminal history, including his involvement in an ...

A Big Stone Gap U.S. District Court denies defendant’s motion for post-conviction relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 based on her claim that her lawyer provided ineffective assistance of counsel when he “forced” her to be sentenced on 2004 drug ...

A Richmond U.S. District Court has personal and subject matter jurisdiction over this suit for specific performance filed by an LLC that requests that defendants convey their partnership interests in the Lee School Lofts Partnership to Lee School at the ...

A Richmond U.S. District Court grants summary judgment to defendant Postmaster General in this suit by a 43-year-old Caucasian female mail handler who suffers from a hearing impairment, alleging discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex age and disability. ...

Affirming a bankruptcy court, a Richmond U.S. District Court says appellant has a security interest in debtor furniture store’s inventory appellant provided in a September 2007 consignment and security agreement. The controversy arises from a September 2007 agreement for appellant ...

In this drug prosecution arising from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement sting operation, an Alexandria U.S. District Court denies defendant’s motion to sever defendant’s trial from that of his alleged coconspirator, and denies defendant’s motion for discovery of additional information ...